Many of these Olympic Games have great stories that make for brilliant reading... from the silly "sporting" events held until the '30s, Jesse Owens and the Nazis in '36, skipping some to the near-bankruptcy of Montreal in '76, the Cold War boycotts in '80 and '84, the rise of capitalism from '84, the outrage of the OG held in Atlanta instead of Athens for the bicentennial in '96...
You name it, it's there. Just try and picture the Olympics held in the Soviet Union! :)